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Miscellaneous Publications

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Adolescent Health in the United States, 2007. February 2008. 150 pp. (PHS) 2008-1034. [PDF - 1.6 MB]

America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2012

Aging

No. 9 Multiple Causes of Death in Old Age. [PDF - 618 KB]
No. 8 Trends in Influenza and Pneumonia Among Older. Persons in the United States. [PDF - 943 KB]
No. 7 Trends in Health Status and Health Care Use Among. Older Woman. [PDF - 337 KB]
No. 6 Trends in Causes of Death among Older Persons in the United States. [PDF - 350 KB]
No. 5 Trends in Prescribed Medicine Use and Spending by Older Americans, 1992-2001. [PDF - 1.8 MB]
No. 4 The Changing Profile of Nursing Home Residents: 1985-1997. [PDF - 271 KB]
No. 3 The Oral Health of Older Americans. [PDF - 285 KB]
No. 2 Trends in Vision and Hearing Among Older Americans. [PDF - 496 KB]
No. 1 Trends in Causes of Death Among the Elderly. [PDF - 416 KB]

Anthropometric and Clinical Findings: Preliminary Findings of the First Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, U.S., 1971-1972. April 1975. 88 pp. (HRA)75-1229. [PDF - 6.6 MB]

Assessing Physical Fitness and Physical Activity in Population-Based Surveys. September 1989. 648 pp. (PHS) 89-1253. [PDF - 7.5 MB]

Atlas of United States Mortality. 209 pp. (PHS) 97-1015. GPO stock number: 017-022-01366-5.

Chartbook for the Conference on the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality. August 1978. 46 pp. [PDF - 7.5 MB]

Charting the Nation's Health: Trends Since 1960. 28 pp. (PHS) 85-1251. [PDF - 64.5 MB]

Consensus Workshop on Dietary Assessment: Nutrition Monitoring and Tracking the Year 2000 Objectives. December 1994. 224 pp. NCHS 0079. [PDF - 13.7 MB]

Current Legislative Authorities of the National Center for Health Statistics, 1999. 20 pp. (PHS) 2000-1303. [PDF - 696 KB]

Disability and Health in the United States, 2001-2005. 89 pp. (PHS) 2008-1035. [PDF - 830 KB]

Draft Guidelines for Statistics and Information on Effects of the Environment on Health. December 1980. 59 pp. [PDF - 2.8 MB]

Eliminating Health Disparities. November 2005. 88 pp. [PDF - 861 KB]

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: State and National Estimates. (PHS) 98-1017. 60 pp. [PDF - 196 KB]

Executive Summary of the Growth Chart Workshop 1992. 88 pp. [PDF - 4.8 MB]

Executive Summary of Workshop to Consider Low Birthweight in Relation to the Revision of the NCHS Growth Charts for Infancy (Birth-3 Years). 68 pp. (PHS) 99-1255. [PDF - 6.2 MB]

Executive Summary of Workshop to Consider Secular Trends and Possible Pooling of Data in Relation to the Revision of the NCHS Growth Charts. 47 pp. [PDF - 2.5 MB]

Executive Summary, Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing. 29 pp. (PHS) 95-1257-1. Facts of Life and Death. November 1978. 51 pp. (PHS) 79-1222.
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Fertility Tables for Birth Cohorts by Color: United States, 1917-73. April 1976. 461 pp. (HRA) 76-1152. [PDF - 74.7 MB]

Funeral Directors' Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting. (2003 Revision) (PHS) 2005-1109. 67 pp. [PDF - 1.3 MB]

Guidelines for Reporting Occupation and Industry on Death Certificates. (PHS) 88-1149. 36 pp. [PDF - 3.7 MB]

Handbook on the Reporting of Induced Termination of Pregnancy. (Reprinted/revised 1997) (PHS) 98-1117. 23 pp. [PDF - 2.6 MB]

Handbook on Divorce Registration. April 1988. 22 pp. (PHS) 88-1116. [PDF - 2.5 MB]

Handbook on Marriage Registration. 1988. 24 pp. (PHS) 88-1111. [PDF - 2.8 MB]

Health Care in America: Trends in Utilization. 2004. 135 pp. (DHHS) 2004-1031. [PDF - 3.3 MB]

Health of an Aging America: 1994 Bibliography: Bibliographies and Data Sources From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. No. 3. January 1995. 36 pp. (PHS) 95-1300.

Health Insurance Coverage for the Self-Employed With No Employees. 64 pp. (PHS) 99-1024. [PDF - 4.6 MB]

Health Survey Research Methods: Ninth Conference. May 2010. 350 pp. [PDF - 2.5 MB]

Health Survey Research Methods: Eighth Conference. July 2004. 219 pp. (PHS) 04-1013. [PDF - 3 MB]

Health Survey Research Methods: Seventh Conference. September 1999. 247 pp. (PHS) 01-1013. [PDF - 4.8 MB]

Health Survey Research Methods: Sixth Conference. April 1996. 238 pp. (PHS) 96-1013. [PDF - 3.1 MB]

Health, United States, 2003
Special Excerpt: Trend Tables on 65 and Older Population. (PHS) 2004-0152. 123 pp. [PDF - 7 MB]

History of the Statistical Classification of Diseases and Causes of Death. (PHS) 2011-1125. 71 pp.[PDF - 2 MB]

Hormone Replacement Therapy Knowledge and Use in the United States. 30 pp. [PDF - 2.5 MB]

Hospitals: A County and Metropolitan Area Data Book. Data Compiled From the 1967 Master Facility Inventory. 236 pp. [PDF - 12.9 MB]

Hospitals' and Physicians' Handbook on Birth Registration and Fetal Death Reporting. (PHS) 87-1107. 61 pp. [PDF - 7.7 MB]

Injury in the United States: 2007 Chartbook. 191 pp. (DHHS) 2008-1033. [PDF - 6.7 MB]

International Health Data Reference Guide, 2003. 170 pp. (PHS) 2005-1007. [PDF - 2.4 MB]

International Health Data Reference Guide, 2001. 170 pp. (PHS) 2003-1007. [PDF - 2.6 MB]

International Health Data Reference Guide, 1999. 161 pp. (PHS) 2000-1007. [PDF - 1.6 MB]

International Health Data Reference Guide, 1997. 164 pp. (PHS) 98-1007. [PDF - 590 KB]

International Health Data Reference Guide, 1995. 144 pp. (PHS) 96-1007. [PDF - 5.7 MB]

International Health Data Reference Guide. June 1994. 118 pp. (PHS) 94-1007.

International Mortality Chartbook. Levels and Trends, 1955-91. Zarate, A. O. December 1994. 191 pp. (PHS) 95-1008. [PDF - 87 MB]

Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting. (2003 Revision) (PHS) 2003-1110. 138 pp. [PDF - 2.9 MB]

Model State Vital Statistics Act and Regulations. 1992 Revision. April 1995. 38 pp. (PHS) 95-1115. [PDF - 2.9 MB]

Model State Vital Statistics Act and Regulations. 1992 Revision. February 1994. 40 pp. (PHS) 94-1115. [PDF - 432 KB]

Model State Vital Statistics Act and Model State Vital Statistics Regulations. 1977 Revision. May 1978. 49 pp. (PHS) 78-1115. [PDF - 3.7 MB]

Mortality Trend Tables for Leading Causes and Selected Components: United States, 1950-69. 39 pp. [PDF - 5.9 MB]

National Trends in Injury Hospitalizations 1979-2001. March 2005 103 pp. (DHHS) 2005-0152. [PDF - 25 MB]

Cover, Title Page, Acknowledgements, Contents, List of Figures and Tables, Highlights, References (cover to page 9) [PDF - 722 KB]
General Statistics (pages 10-18) [PDF - 3.6 MB]
Injury Diagnoses and External Causes of Injury (pages 19-31) [PDF - 4.5 MB]
Injury Diagnoses and External Causes of Injury (pages 32-49) [PDF - 7.7 MB]
Injury Diagnoses and External Causes of Injury (pages 50-65) [PDF - 4.4 MB]
Utilization and Payment (pages 66-87) [PDF - 5.8 MB]
Appendixes (pages 89-105) [PDF - 632 KB]

National Vital Statistics System, Teenage Births in the United States: National and State Trends, 1990-96. 12 pp. (PHS) 98-1120. [PDF - 196 KB]

NCHS Programs and Activities. June 2002. 19 pp. (PHS) 2002-1200. [PDF - 998 KB]

NCHS Staff Manual on Confidentiality. September 2004. 28 pp. (PHS) 2002-1200. [PDF - 362 KB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: The Directory of Federal and State Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Activities. March 2000. 267 pp. (PHS) 00-1255. [PDF - 860 KB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: The Directory of Federal and State Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Activities. 268 pp. (PHS) 99-1255. [PDF - 793 KB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States. Chartbook I: Selected Findings From the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program. September 1993. 144 pp. (PHS) 93-1255-2. [PDF - 146.5 MB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States. The Directory of Federal Nutrition Monitoring Activities. September 1992. 125 pp. (PHS) 92-1255-1. [PDF - 9.2 MB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States. An Update Report on Nutrition Monitoring. September 1989. 434 pp. (PHS) 89-1255. [PDF - 36.4 MB]

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: A Progress Report From the Joint Nutrition Monitoring Evaluation Committee. July 1986. 372 pp. (PHS) 86-1255. [PDF - 27.7 MB]

Older Americans Update 2006: Key Indicators of Well-Being

Occupation and Health Data Guide: Bibliographies and Data Sources From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. No. 2. May 1993. 36 pp. (PHS) 93-1308. [PDF - 1.7 MB]

Physicians' Handbook on Medical Certification of Death (2003 Revision). (PHS) 2003-1108. 65 pp. [PDF - 1.2 MB]

Plan and Operation of the National Employer Health Insurance. 122 pp. (PHS) 99-1021. [PDF - 3.1 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Automating Mortality Statistics, Volume III. (PHS) 2006-1252. [PDF - 11.7 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Automating Mortality Statistics, Volume II. (PHS) 2002-1252. [PDF - 6.5 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Automating Mortality Statistics, Volume I. (PHS) 99-1252. [PDF - 1.3 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality. Volume I. Papers presented at the International Symposium on Perinatal and Infant Mortality, 1984: Bethesda, Maryland. March 1990. 357 pp. (PHS) 85-1252. [PDF - 25.6 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality. Volume II. Papers presented at the American Public Health Association, 1985: Washington, D.C. March 1990. 207 pp. (PHS) 85-1252. [PDF - 13.1 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality. Volume II. Papers presented at the American Public Health Association, 1985, Washington, DC. October 1988. 209 pp. (PHS) 88-1252-1. [PDF - 9.2 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality. Volume III. Papers presented at the International Symposium on Perinatal and Infant Mortality, 1990, Bethesda, Maryland. October 1992. 373 pp. (PHS) 92-1252. [PDF - 28 MB]

Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics. Volume I. Papers presented at the International Symposium on Injury Statistics, May 18-20, 1994, Bethesda, Maryland. March 1995. 330 pp. (PHS) 95-1252. [PDF - 25 MB]

Programs and Activities. (PHS) 98-1200. Contact NCHS for copies. [PDF - 1.2 MB]

Public Health Data Standards Consortium. 24 pp. (PHS) 2002-1029. [PDF - 625 KB]

Publications from the Second Advanced Seminar on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology. (CASM II Seminar).

Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing. 265 pp. (PHS) 95-1257. GPO stock number 017-022-01320-7. [PDF - 2.8 MB]

Smoking Data Guide: Bibliographies and Data Sources. No.1. August 1991. 24 pp. (PHS) 91-1308-1. [PDF - 1.3 MB]

State Definitions and Reporting Requirements for Live Births, Fetal Deaths, and Induced Terminations of Pregnancy. 72 pp. (PHS) 98-1119. Contact NCHS for copies. [PDF - 539 KB]

Summary Measures of Population Health--Report of Findings on Methodologic and Data Issues. 75 pp. (PHS) 2004-1258. [PDF - 4.2 MB]

The 25th Anniversary of the National Health Survey. Reprinted from Public Health Reports Volume 96, No. 3, May-June 1981. 43 pp. August 1981. [PDF - 29 MB]

The Effect of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists of Diseases and Causes of Death Upon Comparability of Mortality Trends. Volume 36, Number 10. Vital Statistics - Special Report. 17 pp. December 3, 1951. [PDF - 1.4 MB]

Third Report on Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: Executive Summary. 48 pp. GPO stock number: 001-000-04620-9. [PDF - 669 KB]

Third Report on Nutrition Monitoring in the United States, Volumes 1 and 2. GPO stock number No. 001-000-04619-5.